Notes

[2]Lenin’s directives to Sklyansky were written on a report from
Commander-in-Chief Vatsetis dated April 23, 1919, concerning
the military situation of the R.S.F.S.R. Vatsetis argued the
necessity to unite the armed forces of the Soviet Republics and place
them under a single command; he also proposed that the system
of Universal Military Training should be temporarily done away
with and its 24,000 instructors mobilised to strengthen the
command of the reserve units on the Eastern Front.

[3]The report of Vatsetis has a postscript by Aralov, who objected
to the total liquidation of the U.M.T. and proposed simply
reducing it by 50 to 75 per cent.